Crettyard

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crettyard, from 76 m² to 326,898 m² (32.69 ha, 80.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Crettyard in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 9 Oct 2025Conditional

  construct a new dairy cow shed to include cubicles, slatted tank, feed passage and all associated site works. An NIS report has been submitted and can be inspected

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2595

• 30 Sept 2025N/a

  construct a new dairy cow shed to include cubices slatted tank, and feed passage.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2589

• 13 Nov 2024Conditional

  retain for a temporary period of time not exceeding 10 years, the construction of a single storey residential cabin, connection to services, and all associated site works at Kilgorey, Crettyard, Co. Laois

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460693

• 25 Aug 2022Conditional

  construct a new milk storage silo and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 22527

• 5 Aug 2022Conditional

  construct a livestock underpass and effluent holding tank and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Laois County Council, 22489

• 10 Aug 2021N/a

  construct a new dairy cow shed to include cubicles, slatted tank, feed passage and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21560

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Crettyard.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Crettyard.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Crettyard, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Crettyard.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Crettyard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Crettyard · Crochta Ard

Area

861,105 m² (86.11 ha, 212.78 acres)

Civil parish

Killabban, and its townlands

Barony

Slievemargy

Electoral division

Newtown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

330 people lived in 117 households in the Newtown electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonbrock, Cloneen (Co. Kilkenny), Garrendenny, Kilgory

Placenames

Crettyard on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.